CFP: Emerging Scholarship Panel from the Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group (10/15/05; ATHE, 8/3/06/-8/6/06)

The Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group of The Association for Theatre in =Higher Education (ATHE) announces its call for papers for the Third =Annual Emerging Scholarship Panel for the 2006 ATHE conference in =Chicago. Papers can address any area in the purview of the Music =Theatre/Dance Focus group, which includes opera, operettas, musicals, =dance theatre, performance art with music or dance elements, and =pedagogy in music theatre and dance. Submissions are open to graduate =students and scholars who have not presented at a national conference, =as well as established scholars who have not presented or published in =the areas of Music Theatre or Dance.=20

For consideration for this panel, please submit a 200 word =abstract/paper proposal no later than October 15 to Korey Rothman at =krothman@ umd.edu or Korey Rothman, Department of Theatre, 2809 Clarice =Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD =20742. (Email submission of documents in Word format is preferable, but =hard copies will be accepted as well). Finalists will be notified by =mid-November and asked to submit a complete draft of their papers no =later than January 1, 2004. From these finalists, three will be selected =for inclusion on the panel. If you have any questions, please email =Korey Rothman at krothman_at_umd.edu. For more information on the ATHE =conference visit http://www.athe.org/